Issues with Laravel Mailables - laravel

Question

I'm trying to create a contact form in Laravel using Laravel 5.3, but I get this nasty error here:
ErrorException in helpers.php line 519:
htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given (View: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/meps/resources/views/emails/contactemail.blade.php)
Here are the files that I was using:
The contact form
<div class="contact-form">
<form class="margin-clear" role="form" action="{{ url('/sendmail') }}" method="POST">
{{ csrf_field() }}
<div class="form-group has-feedback">
<label for="name">Name*</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" name="name" placeholder="">
<i class="fa fa-user form-control-feedback"></i>
</div>
<div class="form-group has-feedback">
<label for="email">Email*</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" name="email" placeholder="">
<i class="fa fa-envelope form-control-feedback"></i>
</div>
<div class="form-group has-feedback">
<label for="subject">Subject*</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="subject" name="subject" placeholder="">
<i class="fa fa-navicon form-control-feedback"></i>
</div>
<div class="form-group has-feedback">
<label for="message">Message*</label>
<textarea class="form-control" rows="6" id="message" name="message" placeholder=""></textarea>
<i class="fa fa-pencil form-control-feedback"></i>
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="btn btn-primary">
</form>
</div>
The Controller function
public function sendmail(Request $request, Mailer $mail) {
$mail->to('kaley36_aw#yahoo.com')->send(new ContactEmail($request->name, $request->email, $request->subject, $request->message));
$request->session()->flash('mail-sent', 'Your email has been sent.');
return redirect('/contact');
}
The Mailable class
class ContactEmail extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $name;
public $email;
public $subject;
public $message;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($name, $email, $subject, $message)
{
$this->name = $name;
$this->email = $email;
$this->subject = $subject;
$this->message = $message;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->from($this->email)->view('emails.contactemail');
}
}
And here is the route
Route::post('sendmail', 'EmailController#sendmail');

Answer 1

You probably looking at the wrong view. The error points to
/views/emails/contactemail.blade.php
But this view has a <form> unless you are sending back to your users a form via e-mail, this looks a lot more like your contact form view and not your e-mail view. Something like:
/views/contact.blade.php (or whatever you have in there as a form)
As for the error, you must have a {{ $variable or functionCall() }} which is not receiving a string, but an object.

Answer 2

I figured it out. The issue was with the variable $message, Laravel wrapped it in an actual object called Message. All I had to do was change the variable name to $theMessage and it worked find.